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Ouch: Your iPhone Passwords Can Be Extracted In Six Minutes

Ouch: Your iPhone Passwords Can Be Extracted In Six Minutes

February 10, 2011
If you misplace your iPhone, you'd better be sure to do a "remote wipe" as quickly as possible - because the bad guys will be able to grab all your passwords in six minutes flat. And, when I say "all your passwords," I literally mean everything. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT) can steal every password in your iPhone's keychain - including your Google Mail password, your Wi-Fi password, and a great many more. You want proof? Here it is:

[via Engadget]

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